Chris Owens | |
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 Owens with Farah Merani at 2016 CFC Annual BBQ Fundraiser | |
| Born | Christopher Bradley Owens 7 September 1961 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
Christopher Bradley Owens (born 7 September 1961) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his performances on the television series The X-Files .
Owens was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Jeannette, a jazz singer, and Garry Owens, a jazz drummer. [1]
Owens has performed in many feature films, often in minor roles, including appearances in Cocktail and The Recruit . However, he is best known for his performances on the television series The X-Files . Owens initially guest starred as the younger version of William B. Davis's character, the Cigarette Smoking Man, in a 1996 episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man". He returned in 1997 in the same role in an episode called "Demons". Later that year, he played the Frankenstein-esque Great Mutato in a surreal episode called "The Post-Modern Prometheus".[ citation needed ]
In 1998, Owens was cast as special agent Jeffrey Spender, son of The Smoking Man and alien abductee Cassandra Spender. [2] Owens was credited as 'Also Starring' but only appeared in eight episodes, spread across the show's fifth and sixth seasons, before his character died at the hand of his father. Owens returned in a 2002 episode called "William", playing a hideously disfigured Jeffrey Spender who had survived the "murder". He appeared a few episodes later in "The Truth", the series finale. [3]
He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a 2002 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for The Uncles . [4]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Cages | Billy Simpson | Short film |
| 1986 | As Is | Pickup #2 | Television movie |
| 1986 | 9B | Steven Lapiere | Television movie |
| 1987 | The Big Town | Garage Boy | |
| 1987 | Haunted By Her Past | Thomas | Television movie |
| 1988 | Cocktail | Soldier | |
| 1994 | Paris or Somewhere | Shawn | Television movie |
| 1995 | Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story | Nebraska | Television movie |
| 1996 | Double Jeopardy | Rocco | Television movie |
| 1996 | Sabotage | Young Security Guard | |
| 1996 | Giant Mike | Tom Aitken | Television movie |
| 1997 | Their Second Chance | Jeff Colvin | Television movie |
| 1998 | Disturbing Behavior | Officer Kramer | |
| 2000 | Python | Brian Cooper | Television movie |
| 2000 | The Uncles | John | Nominated—Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| 2001 | A Glimpse of Hell | Agent Flynn | Television movie |
| 2001 | My Louisiana Sky | Lonnie Parker | Television movie |
| 2002 | Guilt by Association | Roger | Television movie |
| 2002 | Power and Beauty | Weston | Television movie |
| 2003 | The Happy Couple | Dwayne | |
| 2003 | The Recruit | Art Wallis | |
| 2007 | Breach | Trunk Cataloguer | |
| 2008 | The Incredible Hulk | Commando | |
| 2008 | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | Dancer | |
| 2009 | Saw VI | Additional voices | |
| 2010 | RED | Hanged Man | |
| 2010 | Saw 3D: The Final Chapter | Additional voices | |
| 2011 | Dream House | Tom Barrion | Uncredited |
| 2017 | Molly's Game | LA Player | |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Hangin' In | Brian | Episode: "Video Fever" |
| 1985 | Night Heat | Mel Braddock | Episode: "Ancient Madness" |
| 1986 | Adderly | Gang Member | Episode: "Rich Kid" |
| 1988 | 9B | Steven Lapiere | 5 episodes |
| 1988 | The Campbells | Volunteer Rifleman | Episode: "The Rifle Company" |
| 1989 | Street Legal | Ricky Palmer | Episode: "Slipping Through the Cracks" |
| 1990 | Top Cops | Astorotti | Episode: "James Garcia/Mike Coleman" |
| 1990 | Street Legal | Seth Cuthbert | Episode: "Standard of Care" |
| 1992 | Rin Tin Tin K-9 Cop | — | Episode: "Under Siege" |
| 1993 | The Hidden Room | Peter Semple | Episode: "The First Battle" |
| 1995 | TekWar | Roy Henry | Episode: "Chill Factory" |
| 1996 | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Tremaine | Episode: "Shaolin Shot" |
| 1996 | PSI Factor | Deputy Carl Hall | Episode: "Reptilian Revenge/Ghostly Voices" |
| 1996–1997 | The X-Files | Young Cigarette Smoking Man | 2 episodes |
| 1997 | Millennium | Deputy Bill Sherman | Episode: "Monster" |
| 1997 | The X-Files | Mutato | Episode: "The Post-Modern Prometheus" |
| 1998 | Stargate SG-1 | Armin Selig | Episode: "Secrets" |
| 1998–2018 | The X-Files | Jeffrey Spender | 11 episodes Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series |
| 1999 | The Net | Sam Lloyd | Episode: "Y2K: Total System Failure" |
| 2001 | Blue Murder | Speltz | Episode: "Wrongful Convictions" |
| 2001 | Lexx | Biff | Episode: "Texx Lexx" |
| 2001 | Soul Food | Jim | Episode: "Fly Away Home" |
| 2002 | Mutant X | Mr. Delay | Episode: "Interface" |
| 2003 | Blue Murder | John Doe | Episode: "John Doe" |
| 2004 | This Is Wonderland | — | Episode: "#1.9" |
| 2004 | The Grid | Polygrapher | Episode: "#1.2" |
| 2005 | 1-800-MISSING | — | Episode: "Sisterhood" |
| 2005 | Air Crash Investigation | Scott Lustig | Episode: "Mistaken Identity" |
| 2007 | Til Death Do Us Part | Carl Lawford | Episode: "The Pond Scum Murder" |
| 2008 | Victor | Dave Stubbs | TV film |
| 2009 | The Line | Andy | 15 episodes |
| 2010 | Baxter | Sam | 4 episodes |
| 2011 | Combat Hospital | Sergeant Major Gaestner | Episode: "Shifting Sands" |
| 2015 | The Strain | Medical Officer | Episode: "Quick and Painless" |
| 2018 | The Expanse | Kolvoord | 6 episodes |
Fox William Mulder is a fictional FBI Special Agent and the secondary protagonist of the Fox science fiction-supernatural television series The X-Files, played by David Duchovny. Mulder's peers dismiss his many theories on extraterrestrial or paranormal activity as those of a conspiracy theorist and supernaturalist; however, his skeptical but supportive partner, Special Agent Dana Scully, often finds them to be unexpectedly correct. He and Scully work in the X-Files office, concerned with unsolved FBI cases that are often revealed to be supernatural or extraterrestrial in nature. Mulder was a main character for the first seven seasons, but was limited to a recurring character for the following two seasons. He returns as a main character for the tenth and eleventh seasons.
The Cigarette Smoking Man is a fictional character and one of the primary antagonists of the American science fiction drama television series The X-Files. He serves as the arch-nemesis of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder. In the show's sixth season, his name is said to be C.G.B. Spender, but Dana Scully suggests this is one of "hundreds of aliases"; the show's characters and fans continue to refer to him by variations of "the Smoking Man" because he is almost always seen chain-smoking Morley cigarettes, and because he was credited in the pilot episode and other episodes as "Smoking Man". In the eleventh season, he reveals his full name to be Carl Gerhard Busch.
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The sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files commenced airing on the Fox network in the United States on November 8, 1998, concluding on the same channel on May 16, 1999, and consisted of twenty-two episodes. The season continued from the 1998 feature film and focused heavily on FBI federal agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully's separation from the X-Files Division and the demise of the Syndicate—a "shadow government" group attempting to cover up the existence of extraterrestrials—in the two-part episode "Two Fathers" and "One Son".
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Samantha Ann Mulder is a fictional character in the television series The X-Files. She is the younger sister of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder and the daughter of Teena and Bill Mulder. As a child, Samantha was abducted, ostensibly by aliens, and was never returned. It is this experience that drives her older brother Fox Mulder to join the FBI, and later take the reins of the X-Files section.
Alvin D. Kersh is a fictional character in the Fox science fiction television series The X-Files, played by James Pickens Jr. He serves as a figure of authority within the series, first introduced as an Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and is later promoted to the post of Deputy Director. Kersh acts as an antagonist who bureaucratically prevents Special Agents Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, John Doggett and Monica Reyes from investigating cases dealing with the paranormal, dubbed X-Files.
In The X-Files television show and feature film, the Syndicate is a "shadow government" group. They were also known as The Elders, The Consortium, and The Group. Because of their cover-up of extraterrestrial life, they were the primary antagonistic force opposing Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, John Doggett, and Monica Reyes during the series.
FBI Special agent Jeffrey Frank Spender is a fictional character in the American Fox television series The X-Files, a science fiction show about a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of alien existence. Spender was in control of the X-Files office after Fox Mulder's and Dana Scully's forced leaves in "The Beginning". The X-Files office is concerned with cases with particularly mysterious or possibly supernatural circumstances that were left unsolved and shelved by the FBI. Portrayed by Canadian actor Chris Owens, Spender was a recurring character during the fifth and sixth seasons, before returning for the ninth season of The X-Files in a guest role. He returned for the eleventh season of the show.
"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on November 17, 1996. It was written by Glen Morgan, directed by James Wong, and featured the first guest appearance by Chris Owens, appearing as a younger Smoking Man. "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.7, being watched by 17.09 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly positive reviews from television critics.
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"Patient X" is the thirteenth episode of the fifth season of American science fiction television series The X-Files. It was written by series creator Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, directed by Kim Manners and aired in the United States on March 1, 1998, on the Fox network. The episode earned a Nielsen household rating of 12.6, being watched by 20.21 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received moderately positive reviews from critics.
"The End" is the 20th and final episode of the fifth season, and 117th overall of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States and Canada on May 17, 1998. "The End" subsequently aired in the United Kingdom on March 17, 1999, on BBC One. The episode was written by executive producer Chris Carter, and directed by R. W. Goodwin. "The End" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.9, being watched by 18.76 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed to positive reviews from television critics.
"The Beginning" is the first episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on November 8, 1998. The episode was written by Chris Carter, and directed by Kim Manners. It helps explore the series' overarching mythology. "The Beginning" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.9, being watched by 20.34 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed reviews from television critics.
"Two Fathers" is the eleventh episode of the sixth season and the 128th episode overall of the science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode first aired in the United States and Canada on February 7, 1999, on the Fox Network and subsequently aired in the United Kingdom on Sky1. It was written by executive producers Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz and directed by Kim Manners. The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 11.5, a total of 18.81 million viewers. The episode received mostly positive reviews.
"One Son" is the twelfth episode from the sixth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It first aired on February 14, 1999, on the Fox network. The episode was written by series creator Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Rob Bowman. It explores the series' overarching mythology and concludes the Syndicate story arc.
"William" is the sixteenth episode of the ninth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, which originally aired on the Fox network on April 28, 2002. The teleplay of the episode was written by series creator Chris Carter, from a story by former series star David Duchovny, Carter, and executive producer Frank Spotnitz; the entry was directed by Duchovny. "William" helps to explore the series' overarching mythology. The episode received a Nielsen household rating of 5.8, being watched by 6.1 million households and 9.3 million viewers upon its initial broadcast. It received mixed reviews from television critics, many of whom were unhappy with the episode's conclusion.
The mythology of The X-Files, sometimes referred to as its "mytharc" by the show's staff and fans, follows the quest of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder, a believer in supernatural phenomena, and Dana Scully, his skeptical partner. Their boss, FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, was also often involved. Beginning with season 8, another skeptic named John Doggett, and Monica Reyes, a believer like Mulder, were also introduced. The overarching story, which spans events as early as the 1940s, is built around a government conspiracy to hide the truth about alien existence and their doomsday plan. Not all episodes advanced the mythology plot, but those that did were often set up by Mulder or Scully via an opening monologue.
"My Struggle III" is the first episode and season premiere of the eleventh season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. The episode was written and directed by Chris Carter and it aired on January 3, 2018, on Fox. This episode follows the events of "My Struggle II" and is noted for its major plot twists. "My Struggle III" helps to explore the series' overarching mythology and serves as the first of three mythology episodes of the season. Two taglines are featured in this episode: "I Want to Believe", followed by "I Want to Lie".
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